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love elizabeth s.

"Society needs more art. It needs to be bursting at the seams with art. Art is one of the most important tools we have for self-development. Art is the culture changer of this world. Art is politically important. Art is the cozy respite for anyone going through pain. Art is a mirror for humanity. It is our place to alchemize trauma into growth, pain into healed wounds, joy into more joy. And even if no one ever sees anything you create, the simple act of regularly making art will make you a fuller version of yourself. In transforming yourself this way, you will be a better friend, spouse, child, parent. When you can unleash your creativity and find a way to discard your stories of shame, you will find that you are not just creating for yourself. You are creating for the world."

- Amie McNee, We Need Your Art

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mournfulroses

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

flowerytale

Louise Glück, from “Quince Tree”, The Seven Ages

shisasan

Fall in love with everything that makes you feel alive but harms no one… Fall in love endlessly, achingly.

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radical-revolution

“Why are you so afraid of yourself… of changing things? Try to detach yourself from yourself and try to see your own viewpoint from the outside, objectively. You are afraid of losing your balance. But change need not unbalance you; life’s not a static object, after all. It’s a process. There’s no holding still. Intellectually you know that, but emotionally you refuse it. Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life — evolution — the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy — existence itself — is essentially change… When things don’t change any longer, that’s the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is — and the more life.“

“You can’t try to live safely, there’s no such thing as safety. Stick your neck out of your shell, then, and live fully.”—Ursula K. Le Guin / “The Lathe of Heaven”